All ‘Commissioned’ Chickenfoxes:

Wandering around Emerald City Comic Con, GreyNinja’s high contrast and high action style really grabbed my attention, I had to see how he would draw a Chickenfox… I am definitely in love with what he came up with!

Sheika Lugtu’s table at ECCC grabbed my attention with its brightness and her friendliness, so I of course had to get one of her unique commission offerings: Anything in a Jar!

The Chickenfox wasn’t quite as happy about being squeezed in there, but we’ll take him out, we promise!

Check out Sheika’s work at her website, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr. She lends her confident and bold style to comics as part of the Ladydrawers, a group that investigates social and economic issues through the lens of sexuality, gender, and race.

So cool! This year at Emerald City Comic Con, I commissioned a Chickenfox from Pablo Leon, who is a professional illustrator and animation designer with a really gorgeous style! This happy fellow is the result, and I’m really digging the loopy linework and flow of this piece.

Pablo also writes and draws a very relevant and moving webcomic, Refugees, which is a compilation of true stories of people immigrating to the United States from Latin America (trigger warnings apply, they are not happy stories). It’s a difficult look into the lives they must flee and the horrors they go through to escape, beautifully illustrated and sensitively told.

One of my favorite things about conventions is coming home and finding all the amazing works of the people I commissioned, without knowing about them before.

I have a hard crush on Melanie Gillman’s amazing color pencil skills, and their sweet autobiographic comics… and pretty much everything else they draw. I got to meet Melanie at ECCC this year and asked them to draw me a Chickenfox – the results are this awesome adorableness!

I love everything about this, and my favorite part is how the lines are layers and layers of different colors all built up!

The Chickenfox and I were thrilled to meet DINKy-award winning artist Blue Delliquanti at ECCC! As she drew this adorable Chickenfox, we were amused by the fact that she came all the way out from Minneapolis – and I lived there for three years! I really should have gotten involved in the art scene there, so many great people I missed…

I’m not sure how it happened that the Chickenfox and I were fortunate enough to meet Kevin Konrad Hanna at ECCC 2016… but we did! And he was kind enough to draw a Chickenfox for us while we stood there and gawked and asked really obvious questions (“Is that an eraser?” – somebody stop my mouth before it embarrasses me even more)